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French medievalist Rosenberg retires this school year

Professor Samuel N. Rosenberg, an accomplished philologist specializing in the French Middle Ages, retired in December 1999. He is the author, often in collaboration with musicologists, of numerous editions and translations, such as Ami and Amile, Chanter m'estuet (published in France as Chansons des trouvères), Lyrics and Melodies of Gace Brulé, and Songs of the Troubadours and Trouvères. He also co-authored the well-known Harper's Grammar of French with several colleagues in the department.

He came to Indiana University in 1962 and received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University three years later. He was acting chair of the department in 1969 and in 1975-76, and then served as chair from 1977 to 1984. In addition to teaching at Indiana University, he has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught courses as diverse as French Grammar and Composition, History of the French Language, Comparative Sylistics of French and English, Old and Middle French Lyric Poetry, and History of the Italian Language.

Rosenberg views retirement as an opportunity to continue his work in the fields of trouvère lyric and medieval prose narrative. Having translated large parts of the Prose Lancelot, he is now working on an interpretative retelling of the basic story. He also intends to continue his invaluable mentoring of graduate students. Many alumni of the department and others remember participating in his Old French reading group, which retirement has not brought to an end. He also plans to participate in more civic activities.

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